Ranil Jayawardena

Ranil Jayawardena (3 September 1986-) was the Conservative Party MP for North East Hampshire from 8 May 2015, succeeding James Arbuthnot.

Biography
Ranil Jayawardena was born in London, England in 1986 to a Sri Lankan father and an Indian mother. He worked as an assistant to the Conservative Party MP James Arbuthnot and as a councillor for Basingstoke and Deane from 2008 to 2015. In 2015, he was elected as an MP for North East Hampshire, and he supported military intervention in the Syrian Civil War and opposed an LGBT-inclusive school curriculum for schools.